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Economic Issues Underpin Obama's Trip to Brazil, Chile, El Salvador
Obama will also visit Chile, an ally, and El Salvador, which is struggling with drug violence. But the main event is Brazil, where former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva once complained that the U.S. acted like an "empire" and that nothing had changed under Obama, the Washington Post reported.
Obama, in his first visit to Latin America as president, will meet with Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, as the two leaders seek to re-set relations between their countries. Both sides are ready to start over, Julia Sweig, a Council on Foreign Relations scholar, told the Post. "Now they have to translate that optimism and goodwill to figure out what they can do together that's in both of their interests and how to mitigate the tensions that will naturally arise."
Obama said his trip is meant to "strengthen our economic relationship with neighbors" who play a growing role in the United States' economic future. The recent "turmoil and tragedy around the globe" underscores the importance of maintaining close economic links with neighboring countries, he said.
"Our neighbors in the Americas are bound to us by a shared history, values, interest," the president wrote in an op-ed column for USA Today. "What I will convey this week is that we are partners in progress. Strengthening these partnerships will advance common prosperity and common security of all our people, creating new jobs and new growth across the hemisphere, and helping our economy remain an engine of strength and opportunity for all our people."Obama said Latin America's impressive growth "is good for the people of the hemisphere, and it's good for us. Thanks in part to our trade agreements across the region, we now export three times as much to Latin America as we do to China, and our exports to the region . . . will soon support more than 2 million jobs here in the United States."
First Lady Michelle Obama will also have a busy schedule during the trip, highlighted by visits to schools and cultural events, and a speech she will give in Santiago, Chile, aimed at Latin American youth, Politico reported. "She is extraordinarily popular overseas and is a huge asset to the U.S. in terms of her ability to continue our outreach to the region," Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes said earlier this week.
In preparation for the trip, the president granted interviews Friday with televisions stations in Miami, Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C.
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Gee - I invite you all to go over to Daily Finance and read yet more positive reports coming from our business and manufacturing sectors due to better trade agreements and increasing our exports. And even though we have seen 19 months of manufacturing and export gains, President Obama continues his goal of increasing our exports with South America. The gop's agenda: cutting jobs and wages, eliminating collective bargaining, and working for corporations to make record profits overseas.
March 22 2011 at 8:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThey were protesting our administration policies from 1973 to 1990. Not during Clinton or the last two years. Get your facts straight.
March 22 2011 at 8:16 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyI too have read about those protest yet where is the media's story on these protest , Again he gets a pass !
March 21 2011 at 7:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyObama received applause and a standing ovation after his address. They know that his agreements will benefit workers of both countries - not just for corporations.
March 21 2011 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down Replyinasctg56
Violent Protests Erupt, US Consulate Firebombed Ahead of Obama’s Brazil Visit | The Blaze
check it out..obama is not feeling the love on his trip to brazil...wont see your mainstream media reporting this...they are telling obama to go home and he is not going to give his big speech to the people instead he is hiding only to give it to invited guest...affraid of the protestershmmm but he sure likes to ramp up for scott walker
Is that in between the" OBAMA GO HOME" rally..Wow he is not going to give his big speech to the people in rio instaed just to invited guest..change of heart cause he is not feeling the love over their..protest against obama ...and he was suppose to unite the world..Bush was the bad guy..not anymore obama is worst in their eyes..good job!!!! He is not feeling the LoVE overseas is he ...
March 21 2011 at 9:43 AM Report abuse Permalink +3 rate up rate down ReplyGeorge tried giving Lula an expansion to his flavela-slums in the form of some "maquiladora slums" with labels that saiid, made by Corporate America but he failed miserably.
I wonder if Obama will turn out to be a much better messenger mouth-piecing for Corporate America ? , as he try's to impove upon their JOBS EXPORTATION agenda DISGUISED as Free Trade Agreements.
A trade means an EXCHANGE ( like in exchange of finished goods or whatever), but the Free Trade Agreement works like this ...
Arriving in our ports, from China, are super tankers FULL TO CAPACITY with finished goods destined to be sold in Wal-Mart and Sam's Club.
These Cargo ships are so huge, they can't make it through the Suez or the Panama Canal.
Only trouble is, when they return to China, they return EMPTY.
PEOPLE, YOU HAD BETTER STOP TAKING POLITICIANS WORDS FOR THINGS AND YOU HAD BETTER START READING THE FINE PRINT ON THESE JOBS EXPORTATION AGREEMENT....
Ooopppsss....sorry !, I meant to say, Free trade Agreements.
George Bush tried but failed to inject Mexican style maquiladoras in South America.
It's now Obama's turn to mouth-piece for Corporate America in their quest for cheap labor in South America.
If Obama succeeds, more American good paying jobs shall be leaving our shores as Corporate America's march in-search of semi-slave wages stays the course.
Only trouble is, this will open up the gates for more Americans to lose their homes and their ability to pay for their children higher education.
When will politicians start talking the talk and walking the way in-support of the American people and NOT for the special interest groups ???..
reply to soumadrugador: If you want to read about manufacturing and export gains you have to read financial and business reports. Fox News is not going to report it, nor Limbaugh or Beck. Go ahead - google export gains for 2010. Google manufacturing gains for 2010. We have an administration that is negotiating trade agreements on behalf of american workers now - not one who negotiated for corporations to make record proftis overseas.
March 19 2011 at 5:59 PM Report abuse Permalink -9 rate up rate down Replyreply to rann948: You're statements about Brazil are wrong. Go to wikipedia or Business Week and do a little research. They're middle class is growing as well as their economy. Obama will be coming home with yet another trade agreement that will increase our exports and manufacturing jobs - as he has been doing for the last two years and we are seeing the results of that.
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